
the first James Bond novel

1960 Popular Library paperback original, second of two books with Johnny Amsterdam
Michael Lawrence was one of the pseudonyms used by Lawrence Lariar
cover art attributed to Ted CoConis

cover art by Rudolph Belarski
better image than previously posted

cover art repurposed for1949 Popular Library paperback reprint
better image than previously posted


cover art by Rudolph Belarski
better image than previously posted
cover art repurposed for 1948 Popular Library paperback reissue

better image than previously posted

1952 Popular Library paperback original
cover art by A. Leslie Ross
better image than previously posted


published in 1948 by Macmillan, this a later 1951 Popular Library reissue

pseudonym of Cleve F. Adams
1943 Dutton hardcover, this the later, 1949, Popular Library softcover
cover art by Rudolph Belarski
better image than previously posted

1947 Appleton hardcover, this the Bantam softcover released the next year
cover art by William Shoyer
his fourth novel

1956 Popular Library reissue
cover art by Owen Kampen

1933 Doubleday Doran advance reading copy

1948 Avon reprint, 1st paperback edition
cover art by Ann Cantor
Fast One was Cain’s sole novel
Chandler termed it the “high point in the ultra hard-boiled manner”

cover art by Victor Olsen

1978 Southern Illinois University Press
an entry in their “Lost American Fiction” series

1980 Popular Library 1st print reissue
cover art by Jin Campbell

1987 Black Lizard reissue
cover art by Kirwin

February 2012 Centipede hardcover
cover art by Ron Lesser
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